Deirdre joined KCRA on New Year's Eve of 1997 from KCCI-TV in Des
Moines, Iowa. She is an Emmy award winning journalist in writing, anchoring and reporting and has a
bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of
Missouri-Columbia.

She's been a member of the Hearst Television Olympic Team since 2000 and has reported live from Olympics in Sydney, Salt Lake City, Athens, Torino, Beijing, Vancouver, London and is currently prepping to head to Sochi to cover the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Deirdre is a board member for the Sacramento Running Association.

Deirdre is also an Ironman Triathlete and ultra runner with two Ironman finishes, nearly 20 marathons and two 50k races. She's also a mom of two boys, which she says is way more tiring than all the endurance race nonsense.